GOOD FRIDAY.

Cute journal at Cotton On in Santa Monica.

Being inspired by 'Good Friday' and being super hungry, I decided to cook up a good meal for Victor and I. I got off work a couple hours before him so I had enough time to run to the grocery store and buy a few ingredients. I'm not the best cook, but I actually took the time to make this happen. I thought of the recipe in my head. I bought chicken breast and stuffed them with diced 'Italian style' tomatoes (they were seasoned with garlic, basil and oregano). I let the chicken breast marinate in the tomato sauce, and added a bit more garlic salt and basil with a few crushed red peppers. I grilled it all together along with fresh garlic and BOOM! I had two flavorful chicken breasts! I paired this with a light salad, some wheat pasta and garlic Texas toast. After dinner we headed down to Santa Monica and walked around the 3rd Street Promenade. We finally made it to Santa Monica, for the past 3 weeks I've been bugging Victor about going haha. We ended up leaving after about an hour and a half and stopped by Victor's favorite doughnut shop: Krispy Kremes.

HERE'S A VINE ROUND UP OF OUR 

GOOD FRIDAY:

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY.

filming Victor for a future project (stay tuned!). 

I've been so busy working and getting into car accidents that I hardly had time to blog! Now that the holidays are soon approaching it seems like all the beautiful holiday decor is making me feel more calm. This Friday night Victor and I had a great "flashback" date, going back to the Johnny Rockets on Melrose (where we first met) to celebrate a month-a-versary. Two years and one month!! I picked him up from work, tried to be a gentleman and opened up the car door for him. I always try and remind myself to do this more often but sometimes it's too late as he has already taken a seat. I will try to make this a habit! I loved seeing him smile and be surprised when I got out to open his door. I set my IPod to play "Enchanted" by Taylor Swift (one of our favorite songs by her). Dinner was pretty good, minus the weird annoying people that surrounded us but what can you do. Victor surprised me with tickets to the 'Hollywood Museum'! I have always wanted to go! I'm a sucker for old Hollywood, and anything to do with movie film locations, props, etc. After dinner we had a mini photo shoot (of course), a top secret film shoot, and then headed over to The Grove for a quick stroll under the bright Holiday lights. I've always loved the Holidays and I am so happy to have someone to share all the festivities with! Speaking of festivities we have been invited to a few Holiday parties so I will be posting photos from them asap! We ended the night by taking a trip to our local 7-11 and getting hot cocoa. This was a flashback Friday that I won't ever forget!

@VICTOR_GO // @J_HDEZ

LITTLE SPONTANEOUS DATE.

Friday was a fun spontaneous day for Victor and I. We both were off work by 4pm (that is rare) so we decided to make the best of it! We started off by going to eat at our fave place with the best salad bar, Sizzler, and later drove down to Little Tokyo.

 

 

The view from my car.

 

Once we arrived to Little Tokyo the first thing we did was go to this HUGE Japanese book store, I wouldn't compare it to Barnes and Noble because it's 10X better. There's Japanese magazines, even VOGUE Homme Japan, cute postcards, stickers, notebooks, and Victors favorite: stationary/crafting books. He was like a kid in a candy store, amazed at all the stationary crafting books they had, it was so fun to see his reaction.We spent a long time in that store and would have spent some more if they hadn't closed so early.

 

A super cute card that Victor and I loved, wish I was able to gift that to someone. 

Little Tokyo.

Inside a market, felt like I was out of the country.

 

 Victor admiring some street art.

This Friday was a great one. From the minute I picked up Victor from work I felt excited, I felt nervous and like it was one of the first dates we were going on. It almost felt like we had just started going out and I loved it. I explained this a bit to him but couldn't find the perfect words so I'm hoping this helps him understand how I felt. I think what made this day so great was that it wasn't planned. I always plan ahead and live my life cautiously, constantly thinking about what my next move will be so deciding to just head to Little Tokyo out of the blue made me feel relieved. I love that we just decided to go down to Little Tokyo last minute and ended up having a great time. We even stumbled upon some public karaoke and I had the courage to want to sing a duet with Victor but unfortunately the Karaoke DJ had just round up his last 3 singers. We said we would come again soon. I've been thinking about last night all day, and hope to have many more little spontaneous dates. We walked through Little Tokyo holding hands, talking and even though it was a cold night everything felt perfect. I can't wait for Wednesday to come around because we will be reaching our 2 YEARS TOGETHER. Of course I will make a blog post about it! Now I have to finish something up for that day ;) but here's a song that I am currently obsessing over:

 

Taylor Swift - "Begin Again"